VAST lab at UCLA

The VAST lab at UCLA investigates cutting-edge research topics at the intersection of VLSI technologies, design automation,  architecture and compiler optimization at multiple scales, from micro-architecture building blocks,  to heterogeneous compute nodes, and scalable data centers. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro allows you to create, view and edit files in Portable Document Format (PDF).  Current focuses include architecture and design automation for emerging technologies, customizable domain-specific computing with applications to multiple domains, such as imaging processing, bioinformatics, data mining and machine learning.

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Latest News

Mon, Mar 3, 2025

Congratulations to Prof. Cong for his paper titled "Optimizing FPGA-based Accelerator Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks," published at the 23rd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA'15) and co-authored with Chen Zhang, Peng Li, Guangyu Sun, Yijin Guan, and...

Fri, Jan 24, 2025

Prof. Cong delivered a keynote speech entitled “Compilation and Architecture Optimization for Quantum Computing” at the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2025) on January 22, 2025, Tokyo, Japan.

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Wed, Dec 18, 2024

Congratulations to Computer Science PhD graduate Karl Marrett (supervised by Prof. Jason Cong) for winning the Best Student Paper Award titled "Gossamer: Scaling Image Processing and Reconstruction to Whole Brains" at Brain Informatics '24, the principal conference at the intersection of AI and...

Latest Publications

Invited: Coping with Interconnects
Conference publication
Jason Cong
ML-QLS: Multilevel Quantum Layout Synthesis
Conference publication
Wan-Hsuan Lin, Jason Cong
[PDF]: Reuse-Aware Compilation for Zoned Quantum Architectures Based on Neutral Atoms
Conference publication
Wan-Hsuan Lin, Daniel Bochen Tan, Jason Cong
Hierarchical Mixture of Experts: Generalizable Learning for High-Level Synthesis
Conference publication
Weikai Li, Ding Wang, Zijian Ding, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Zongyue Qin, Jason Cong, Yizhou Sun
Dynamic-Width Speculative Beam Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference
Conference publication
Qin, Zongyue, Zifan He, Neha Prakriya, Jason Cong, and Yizhou Sun
Stream-HLS: Towards Automatic Dataflow Acceleration
Conference publication
Suhail Basalama and Jason Cong
SAT-Accel: A Modern SAT Solver on a FPGA
Conference publication
Michael Lo, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, and Jason Cong
A Unified Framework for Automated Code Transformation and Pragma Insertion
Conference publication
Stéphane Pouget, Louis-Noël Pouchet, Jason Cong
Automatic Hardware Pragma Insertion in High-Level Synthesis: A Non-Linear Programming Approach
Journal publication
Stéphane Pouget, Louis-Noël Pouchet, Jason Cong
Compilation for Dynamically Field-Programmable Qubit Arrays with Efficient and Provably Near-Optimal Scheduling
Conference publication
Daniel Bochen Tan, Wan-Hsuan Lin, and Jason Cong

Our Projects

Project Description:

Domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) have shown to offer significant performance and energy efficiency over general-purpose CPUs to meet the ever-increasing performance needs. However, it is well-known that the DSAs in field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) or...

Our lab focuses on advancing quantum compilation techniques to enhance the efficiency and scalability of quantum computing. We focus on Quantum Layout Synthesis (QLS), developing optimal and heuristic methods for mapping quantum algorithms onto hardware, including reconfigurable...

Heterogeneous computing with extensive use of accelerators, such as FPGAs and GPUs, has shown great promise to bring in orders of magnitude improvement in computing efficiency for a wide range of applications. The latest advances in industry have led to highly integrated heterogeneous hardware...

Direction 1: Real-Time Neural Signal Processing for Closed-Loop Neurofeedback Applications.

The miniaturized fluorescence microscope (Miniscope) and the tetrodes assembly are emerging techniques in observing the activity of a large population of neuros in vivo. It opens up new research...

In the Big Data era, the volume of data is exploding, putting forward a new challenge to existing computer systems. Traditionally, the computer system is designed to be computing-centric, in which the data from IO devices is transferred and then processed by the CPU. However, this data movement...

Summary

In this project, we focus on improving the efficiency of large and small language models and potentially extend to general deep neural networks for other applications. In terms of efficiency, we believe there are three key metrics to pay attention to:

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In the era of big data, many applications present siginificant compuational challenges. For example, in the field of bio-infomatics, the computation demand for personalized cancer treatment is prohibitively high for the general-purpose computing technologies, as tumor heterogeneity...

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To meet ever-increasing computing needs and overcome power density limitations, the computing industry has entered theera of parallelization, with tens to hundreds of computing cores integrated into a single...

Software Releases

https://github.com/UCLA-VAST/EBMF This project provides SMT solving method and a heuristic, row packing, for the exact binary matrix factorization (EBMF) problem. Additionally, we provide an SMT method to find fooling set size of a binary...

LEKO and LEKU Suites [GitHub]

(Logic synthesis Examples with Known Optimal/Upper-bounds)

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Optimal Layout Synthesizer of Quantum Circuits for Dynamically Field-Programmable Qubits Array. https://github.com/UCLA-VAST/DPQA